Syed Rizwan Farook

Syed Rizwan Farook (1987-2 December 2015) was an American employee at the Department of Public Health in San Bernardino County, California, who was a suspected radical Islamist and the perpetrator of the 2015 San Bernardino shooting with his wife Tashfeen Malik.

Biography
Syed Rizwan Farook was born in 1987 in Illinois to a family of Sunni Muslim Pakistani descent. In 2009 he graduated from California State University in San Bernardino with a degree in environmental health, and he worked as a food inspector at the Department of Public Health in San Bernardino County, California, where he was described as quiet and polite. Farook married Tashfeen Malik after meeting her on the internet and seeing her in Saudi Arabia, and he showed no signs of being radicalized until he grew a beard in November 2015. Farook and Malik planned out an attack against his place of work, a government facility, and on 2 December 2015 the two of them fired on people gathering at the Department of Public Health office for a Christmas party. The two of them, armed with AR-15 rifles, killed 14 people before they drove off in a black SUV, which was chased down by police. They threw pipe bombs, but they were both killed by bullets as they drove. Their SUV was located on a street and surrounded by SWAT troops and armored cars, and they were verified to be dead, with no third attacker taking part in the attack as reports suggested.